Live auction - Lot 1234

Lingua [...]: cui Libellum Plutarchi Chaeronei de immodica verecundia propter argumenti similitudinem adiunximus.

ERASMUS, Desiderius

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Lot description

Basel, H. Froben & N. Episcopius, August 1547

8vo: 415-[1] pp. (upper corner first 3 quires strengthened, some soiling & marg. dampstaining).

Mod. leather. Good copy.

Basel reprint of Erasmus' bestseller on the effects of speech (1st publ. 1525). Woodcut mark on title and at the end.
Ref. Erasmus Online 2384. - Ind. Aurel. 163.352. - VD16 E-3163. - Bezzel 1276. - STC German (BL) 282. - Not in Adams, De Reuck.
Prov. Some marg. ms. annotations.